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...potential mafia connections added a bit of much-needed media glamour to the cobwebbed story, Sale and Pelletier were not impressed. The cute-as-a-button pair was back on the morning program circuit Thursday, flashing their trademark grins and shrugging off the whole incident. French ice dancing pair Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat were unamused. "Everybody wants to claim a part of our victory for themselves," Peizerat grumbled to the AP. "The judges think it's thanks to them we're champions, top skating officials do too, and now it's the Russian mafia." Hey, buddy: tell...
DIED. DAVE BERG, 81, longtime Mad magazine artist and creator of "The Lighter Side of..." comic strip; of cancer; in Marina del Rey, Calif. Unlike much of the raffish satire in Mad, Berg's strips took gentle jabs at absurdities of American life, such as naive car owners prone to getting conned by auto mechanics...
...waters off the coast of Oman are home to more than 20 species of marine mammals and provide both breeding and feeding grounds for sperm whales, dolphins and the endangered humpback whales. Head to the bluffs above Muscat to spot dolphins frolicking, or book a whale-watching cruise at Marina Bander al-Rowdha by calling...
DIED. JAY CHIAT, 70, idealistic adman whose influential Los Angeles-based firm, Chiat/Day, pioneered the "West Coast style" of conveying strong messages without prominently featuring logos, as in Nike's 1984 billboard portraits of Olympic athletes with a tiny swoosh in the corner; of prostate cancer; in Marina del Rey, Calif. Among the firm's other creations: Apple's 1984 campaign (based on the Orwell novel) to introduce the Macintosh PC, in which a brightly dressed woman rebels against look-alike zombies; and the drumming Energizer Bunny. A tough boss, Chiat once said, "My real talent was for losing clients...
...Marina Gerolimatos’ hands are both efficient and expressive. And in the Eliot House dining hall her efficiency (as Eliot’s dining card swiper) and her expressiveness (as a painter) are both on display. Gerolimatos, who has lived in America since 1978 and worked at Harvard since 1980, presided over the opening of the first public display of her work on March 3 in a small dining room in Eliot. So far, the reviews are glowing...